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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

You mean Amazon is bad to their workers?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Amazon employees says cloud boss can eat shit"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why quit when you could get paid to sabotage the company from inside and maybe get a swipe at performing a bezonian head removal ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Naw you just wait to get fired and then submit unemployment for the job changing past what was agreed with

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

although it'd be nice, that's how you end up in prison.

never fuck with a rich assholes money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He pointed to Amazon’s principle of “disagree and commit,” which is the idea that employees should debate and push back on each others ideas respectfully

That’s all fine and dandy for ending debate about a stupid roadmap feature, but “disagree and commit” is a different story when you’re asking people to spend 3 hours unpaid in a car everyday.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

As a long time Amazon employee, disagree and commit essentially works like this:

Employee: "I'm not convinced this is the best way to do something"

Manager: "Noted, now stfu and do what I say"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Alexa, tell me what "dead sea effect" means.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Do it during holiday season. Do it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If the cloud is so great why can't you work remote?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do not give Bezos ideas about uploading brains to the cloud. He would make AWS CloudEmployee, an employee-as-a-service product that lets you scale your business up or down, without expensive layoffs and bad PR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

He totally would. Tech bros reinventing the concept of a temp agency. How revolutionary and disruptive! /s I worked at a company once that would hire temps to work alongside the regular employees when attrition was too bad to meet headcount. We direct employees were getting $10-15/hr for a $25-35/hr job (higher for some roles) and the temps were getting even less, usually because they were desperate or unemployable in the mainstream for whatever reason. I more than doubled my salary when I left there.

I lean more and more towards us all being guilty for every time we've put up with this shit as employees, tolerated other employees being treated poorly, or done business with a company that mistreats its employees. Exploiting your employees should elicit the same response as a fraud scandal. We watched them build these prisons and took money to put our smiling faces at the face of their customer experience. We all tell ourselves we can't do anything alone but we are so disconnected socially that only the already unionized few can truly demand their employers compliance.

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